Figures: Human Taste Buds!
The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body.
Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts
The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour
Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body
A normal life-span will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you
The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need be.
The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night
The cornea is approximately the size and thickness of a dime
A blink of an eye lasts about one tenth of a second
The average person blinks their eyes about 11,500 times per day or about 4.2 million times per year.
There are only two tissues in your body that do not receive oxygen from your blood - corneas and nails
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Eyes!
An owl can see a mouse moving over 150 feet away with light no brighter than a candle!
A cat's eyes glow in the dark because of special silvery "mirrors" that reflect light, making it much easier for them to see in the dark.
So-called "color-blindness," in which colors such as green and red are hard to distinguish, affects about 1 in 30 people -- and many times more men than women!
Facts of Life
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If
they're OK, you're it.
Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to
others.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to
criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid, too.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you feel
happy to be on your way.
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be
evenly distributed.
AMAZING FACTS
Amusing Facts
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a
fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,
the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the
person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated
that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible)
did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has
come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places --
refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the
last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo
belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the
pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a
little Chinese boy."
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound,
not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied
(present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the
advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which
closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--
so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So
a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated
to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be
felt unaided.)
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in
the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped
as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents
where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to
realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed
the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes
never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up,
Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently
during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other
is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion
is flown in war time.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past
their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign
language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the
signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had
an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide
poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a
lightning strike.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient
Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging."
Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke
someone's eye out.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
daughter, Ruth.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like
it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson
of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all
four feet at all times.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
An American quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin.
Today it is known as Tennessee.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.
You are born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult,
you only have 206.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem,
but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem,
but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.
That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity,
so the tears can't flow.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, nor creamy.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat,
so you can eat your plate.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed
throughout the world.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool.
He changed it every 2 innings.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Here are some interesting numbers to look at:
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice.
The average person laughs 15 times a day
Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe", meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone.
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
11% of the world is left-handed.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
52% of Americans drink coffee.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.
78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island.
84% of a raw apple is water.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bat is the only mammal that flies.
A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
A Fag is to work hard or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags
A fagot is a bundle of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph
A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
A foal is a baby horse.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
A group od geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.
A group of crows is called a murder.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.
A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.
A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell
A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
A person uses approximently fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.
A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pineapple is a berry.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.
A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.
A SEAL's weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
A speleologist studies caves.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A spremologer collects trivia.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A traditional dish from Savolax, called "kalakukko" (fishcock in engl.) is made of white fish and porkfat encased in a baked crust of rye.
A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose
Did You Know . . . ???
*Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!
*The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.
* You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex
*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)
* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH
*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
*Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our universe.
*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal
*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer
*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
*Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.
*When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.
*Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.
*The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.
*In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."
*It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).
*The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.
*The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.
*The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)
*The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million
*Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries
*Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds
*The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first
*During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room
* The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man
*Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.
*When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours
*160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.
*When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY
*On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000
*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
*While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85
*Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries
*A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
*Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
*In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it
*A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet
*Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet
*Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch
*The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched
*In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
*A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]
*The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal
*The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon.
*In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.
*During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
*The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign
*The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.
*The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
*Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
*Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey
*Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet
*The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!
*The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
*Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow
*Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston
*The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.
*Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
*Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
*American car horns beep in the tone of F.
*The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
*China has more English speakers than the U.S.
*Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world
*The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too
*You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
*There are no public toilets in Peru.
*Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again
*The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.'
*In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
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